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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jun 29, 2024
    Buying ads to take over the homepage of MailOnline is the sort of thing you do when: - Your campaign budget is very healthy indeed - You're feeling pretty confident about the result - You want to block your opponents doing it and generally annoy them for the lolz.
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    Who Targets Me
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    Jan 1, 2024
    Sunak bought just over £9,000 of Meta ads on the 30th and has now spent £31,500 on them in the last 7 days. This is an unprecedentedly large figure for a UK politician outside of an election period.
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jun 30, 2020
    Let’s see what some of 2019’s biggest political advertisers in the UK are up to these days...
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    May 1, 2021
    We’ve had an unbelievable response since being featured on @zdfmagazin last night. To all our new friends in Germany: Herzlich willkommen! Vielen Dank!
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jun 7, 2024
    All of the Tories paid digital campaigns have been switched off.
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    Who Targets Me
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    Dec 10, 2019
    Facebook says it is “urgently investigating” how its Ad Library broke two days before the election. Google’s data is 9 days out of date. The big platforms aren’t living up to their word on ad transparency.
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    Rowland Manthorpe
    @rowlsmanthorpe
    Dec 10, 2019
    NEW: political ads from all the major parties are disappearing from Facebook's Ad Library It's not clear how many, but @TristanHotham fears it could be "tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands" It's "catastrophic", he told me news.sky.com/story/research…
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Nov 28, 2019
    The @Conservatives just launched Facebook ads featuring @bbclaurak. facebook.com/ads/library/?a…
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jun 30, 2020
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    The loopholes need to be closed by: - Strong verification of advertisers - Political advertisers should “earn the right” to target voters - Even more transparency - Polling day should be ‘quiet’ - free of all but “go and vote” ads. 10 ideas to sort it:
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    Ten simple ideas to regulate online political advertising in the UK
    From medium.com
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    May 27, 2024
    Have the Conservatives gifted Labour a highly effective voter registration campaign?
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    Who Targets Me
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    Jun 29, 2024
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    Also, see this via @patrickkmaguire.
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jun 30, 2020
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    These campaigns existed for a few months at most. They never said where the money came from. They never built trust about who they were. There was no meaningful public face to hold to account. They were a loophole posing as legitimate campaign activity.
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jan 9, 2024
    £22,178 is absolutely 👀 for a UK politician to be spending on a day's worth of social media ads 10 months* before an election. * Apparently
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    Who Targets Me
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    Jun 30, 2020
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    Here’s the website of Britain’s Future, who spent £434,721 on Facebook ads in 2019 to promote a hard Brexit.
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    Who Targets Me
    @WhoTargetsMe
    Jan 15, 2020
    Labour leadership candidate @jessphillips calls for "a new public body to regulate online political ads, funded by a levy on the cost of purchasing the advertising space”. We’d welcome that.
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    My six-point plan to restore trust in politics | Jess Phillips
    From theguardian.com